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Picture of the Day
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drummer93
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agree
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I'll tell you what, I think it's a tank.
drummer93
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Feldmeijer
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Erm, not really a picture, but here's a video of Confederate civil war veterans doing the "Rebel Yell"
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On June 20th, 1941, the tomb of the last great Mongol ruler, Timur, was exhumed in Samarkand, Uzbekistan by a Russian anthropological team sent by Stalin. Upon opening Timur's sarcophagus, they found an inscription on his casket, reading "Whoever opens my tomb, shall unleash an invader more terrible than I." Two days later, Hitler initiated Operation Barbarossa, with four million Axis troops invading the USSR in the largest invasion in the history of warfare.
In November 1942, the Russians returned Timur to the mausoleum of Gūr-i Amīr with full Islamic burial rites. That same month, the German 6th Army and components of the 4th Panzer Army, and the Romanian 3rd and 4th Armies were encircled in Stalingrad in Operation Uranus.
This has nothing to do with Indiana Jones.
FlyingR
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Is that for real or just some crazy hoax?
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Nope, all true, you can look it up! Minus of course the bit about exhuming the tomb triggering Operation Barbarossa and returning it triggering Operation Uranus... unless of course you're superstitious or wear a fedora
That photograph is the real deal as well.Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Timur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Feldmeijer
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That Timur guy was a pretty dangerous madman though, so I wouldn't be surprised.
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Well, he did make a tower of freshly harvested human skulls at one point... but anyway, back to the gaiety and happiness of the Second World War!
A German soldier signals during Operation Market Garden, September 1944. Aaand it's bonus picture day, so here's another: a French R 35 takes a direct hit from an artillery round, launching it into the air while another, partially burning but still operated, advances in the foreground. Battle of France, 1940.
A German soldier signals during Operation Market Garden, September 1944. Aaand it's bonus picture day, so here's another: a French R 35 takes a direct hit from an artillery round, launching it into the air while another, partially burning but still operated, advances in the foreground. Battle of France, 1940.
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An Italian anti-aircraft gun, southern Italy, 1943. Boxes of biscotti can clearly be seen in the lower left, for the anti-aircraftmen to sustain themselves during those long, boring days.
Africandave
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Wow I have never seen a picture like this before!
VonMudra
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Nope, that whole flag on top of the vehicle thing went away when Germany had lost air superiority on all fronts.
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